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Owners of the strongest teams grew tired of handing a large share of television revenue to teams that didn’t contribute to the strength of their league -- such teams tanking a season would generally turn out to be making a mistake, but that mistake also dragged down television revenue and fan interest for the other teams in their league.

My bank account and great young players created from training while tanking are merely a mirage. It seems I've made a mistake. What have I done!

edit - well, Charles did say "generally", i guess

Last edited by brian at 4/19/2011 7:23:14 PM

And Sharman and his astronomically large bank account would also like to join you for cocktails at the "Where did I go wrong" convention ;)

Edit:This isn't as funny now since Sharman is back in the JBBL after successfully tanking.

Last edited by oriolekid at 4/19/2011 7:48:18 PM

I dont like this "fix", as it really does not solve anything. Most tanking teams will get/keep three players that will keep them above the ridiculously low floor and still make truckloads of cash.

The floor in my league is ~116k, nowadays its really hard to be below this amount - three trainees in later stages of their training will keep you over this sum...

Yeah. For the most part. They cut salaries and thus their revenue increases (just like in BB).

i think that there are some differences between fan reactions of europe and usa. imo, loldots is right for most examples as he said. if fans really believe there are great talents and franchise players of future, they keep coming the arena and watch them. maybe, clubs' merchandising revenue aren't so high (but not ridiculosly low) however gate receipts will stiill be enoughly high.

okc is good example for this. i know that they went to a new city which boost their gate receipts but mostly fans came to watch the talents like kd, russwest. also wolves is another good example. if i am not wrong, their arena was full after years this year just because of kevin love's unusual performance and record. american fans can easily came to arenas, just a small excitement is enough for them. even in english premier league in europe, there are several examples like these.

as generel, i think that there are some supporting arguments and examples in nba for bbs. maybe we should acknowledge them to be right up to a point.

Sorry for offtopic. Some answers:

this may not be the place to talk about the necessity of preventing tanking but i can't miss this one..
$600k per week makes approximately $8M in a season (correct me if i'm wrong)..
now tell me what's the promotion chance of the other teams in your division..
you can buy two top quality salary-wise guards with this extra cash nowadays..

Yes 8M is quite correct.
Promotion chance in my current division is quite high. I'm not promoting with the money. I'm rebuilding my team and keeping money in the bank, but that's just me. In general, tankers of course have high probability to promote if they use the money wisely.

the worst thing is; you didn't need a single management skill to get such an advantage over the other guys relegated..
this is a short-term tactic with long-term effects..
it's all about justice and i can't understand how you can't feel for the victims..

True, tanker doesn't have to have any management skills during that tanking year. Just log-in, put line-ups, arrange friendlies and so on. However, to play in such position that you can tank requires some management skills, I think. Tanking gives you some benefits only in top divisions, remarkable financial benefits only in I.1 division.

All have same rules and regulations, so I don't see any victims here. If someone is tanking, you can also tank if you think that it is a good strategy for you. Also next year in lower division, if someone sees that there is no chance to promote, they can tank or rebuild own team as they want. Of course it's annoying if every year there is a tanker in your division who would like to promote. Then you must be smarter and manage your team better and find our way for promotion.

PS: i'm not criticizing what you did (hate the game, not the player)..
i'm criticizing your thoughts about tanking..

You have full rights to criticize my thoughts. Because we all have same options, I cannot criticize any strategies. Tanking is one possibility for everyone in this game.